Bad News Mounts

Indonesian Death Toll: 2,914

Expect it to continue rising as teams find more bodies in the rubble.

All in all, not a good day for humanity.

Weekly Report

It may seem trivial compared to what is happening in Indonesia, but here's a brief summary of who was fighting who this week, the stories that might not have made it into the mainstream US news.  Since I don't watch the news much (not having a TV and all) I'm sort of curious to know how many of them are being reported, both in the US and abroad.  I think the people who read my LJ are a well-informed bunch, so I would like to know exactly what that entails.

( Weekly Roundup: The Usual Mess )

No news from Ethiopia/Eritrea, Nepal, or Pakistan, thank God.  There's enough bad news to go around this week.